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I do a similar project with second. The bird look the same (from Denise Logan's book, Dynamic Art Projects for Children), but we use construction paper crayons and liquid watercolors. These are beautiful!

Did you have your students draw their birds from looking at a pattern? It seems like the examples you show here have the same basic shape for the birds and the heads turned the same way and everything. Sorry for the simple question, but I have 5th graders that seem to need a lot of guidance and I'm thinking I may need to give them the general shape of the bird and stick so that they can focus more on the glue and colors.

I did. We did a directed drawing first...my fifth graders seem like yours. They need a ton of guidance and have "artist's block" OFTEN. I know it's not the "ideal" way to let the kids create, but they do like that they have a successful project at the end of class :) GOOD LUCK!